A list from a publication available in early 1988 is used to compile this AM list, with some corrections and additions included from me. However it is not definitive, and no doubt there are some significant omissions. (See our Mayo contribution at the end of the page)
kHz | NAME, location, also FM Frequencies (if known) used. |
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531 | SUNSHINE 101, Dublin. see FM list (also 846kHz in 1988) |
657 | BLB (BRAY LOCAL BROADCASTING),Bray Co. Wicklow,also 97.8FM |
702 | "WEST NATIONAL RADIO 3", Mullingar Co. Westmeath, and FM (Originally "Radio West", had also called itself "W.E.S.T." for a time(1986??) |
792? | Galtee Radio, Limerick also FM. Station reappeared during the late 1990s on FM only |
738 | NRG 103 ("Energy 103"), Dublin, 103.1FM (Closed early 1988) |
819 | Q102 ("Super Q" or "The Q") Dublin, See FM list |
819 | CAVAN COMMUNITY RADIO, Cavan 98.1FM |
828 | CBC (Clonmel Broadcasting Company) The Westgate, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. 99.1/102.6 FM |
837 | K.I.T.S. 101FM Co. Monaghan.(Aimed at a Northern Ireland audience) |
8?? | RADIO MUNSTER. Limerick. Also FM |
846 | WLS MUSIC RADIO, Galway also 102.7FM (Closed 1987 or 1988??) |
891 | TREBLE-T R (TTTR), Dublin (Country Music) 99.5FM |
954 | "HITS 954", Limerick. also FM (Closed early 1988) |
954 | BIG "M" COMMUNITY RADIO(relay) Castleblaney Co. Monaghan. 87.9/104FM |
981 | HOMETOWN RADIO, Castleblaney Co. Monaghan. 98.6FM |
981 | IRISH CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING SERVICE, Dublin |
999 | TIPPERARY COMMUNITY RADIO (TCR), Tipperary Town. 99.9FM |
999 | MIDWAY RADIO, Mullingar Co. Westmeath. 104.7FM |
1008 | COMMUNITY RADIO WEXFORD, 87.9/101.1FM |
1008 | NORTH DUBLIN COMMUNITY RADIO, Dublin 17. +FM |
1008 | NORTH WEST COMMUNITY RADIO, Buncrana Co. Donegal. 98.1FM |
1008 | KISS FM, Monaghan. 103.7FM-high ERP to Belfast!.(opened early 1988) |
1026 | ABC RADIO, Waterford.("The Hot FM") 103.1FM and others |
1035 | CENTRAL RADIO, Longford |
1035 | LIBERTIES LOCAL COMMUNITY RADIO (LLCR), Dublin. also FM |
1044 | EAST COAST RADIO, Ardee Co. Louth |
1071 | LONGFORD COMMUNITY RADIO |
1116 | HEARTBEAT FM, Dublin. See Dublin FM list (below) |
1125 | RADIO CAROUSEL, Fairways Hotel Dundalk Co. Louth. 101FM |
1125 | RADIO LUIMNI, Limerick 96.5/103.0FM |
1125 | MELVIN COMMUNITY RADIO, Manorhamilton Co. Leitrim |
1134 | NORTH WEST COMMUNITY RADIO (RELAY) see 1008kHz |
1170 | BREFFNI RADIO, Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan |
1188 | RADIO DUBLIN. Also 104.8/105.2FM (+Short Wave 6910kHz) |
1197 | WLR-Waterford Local Radio,(studio: 24 Georges St. Waterford) also 88.9 FM |
1197 | TELSTAR COMMUNITY RADIO, Dundalk Co. Louth also FM |
1224 | KILDARE LOCAL BROADCASTING, Newbridge Co. Kildare. |
1233 | BOYNESIDE RADIO ,Carrickcarnon Co. Louth 106.2FM |
1233 | MID WEST RADIO (MWR) relay Co. Mayo |
1242 | LAOIS COMMUNITY RADIO, Mountrath Co. Laois 102.1/102.8FM |
1251 | ARKLOW COMMUNITY RADIO (ACR), Arklow Co. Wicklow. 99.2FM |
1251 | ERNESIDE RADIO, Belturbet Co. Cavan |
1251 | PREMIER COUNTY RADIO (originally CENTRE RADIO), Clonmel. Also FM |
1260 | RADIO CAROUSEL NORTH, Carrickcarnon Co. Louth |
1287 | RADIO NOVA, Fahan Co. Donegal |
1305 | ERI. Whites Cross, Cork. Also on 97.7 FM |
1305 | BOYNESIDE RADIO, Drogheda Co. Louth. 98.1/99.1 FM |
1323 | BOYNESIDE RADIO, Kells Co. Meath 100.3 FM |
1332 | MID WEST RADIO (MWR), Ballyhaunis Co. Mayo. 98.4FM |
1359 | TALLAGHT COMMUNITY RADIO, Greenhills rd, Tallaght Dublin. also FM |
1359 | CARLOW LOCAL RADIO, Castle Hill, Carlow, Co. Carlow |
1386 | NORTH CORK COMMUNITY RADIO (NCCR),The Majestic Ballroom, Gooldshill Mallow Co. Cork. also FM "95 and 98" |
1386 | RADIO CAROUSEL, Navan Co. Meath |
1386 | KANDY RADIO, Ballinasloe Co. Galway. 98.0FM |
1395 | KILKENNY COMMUNITY RADIO (KCR), Dama Lr., Ballycallan rd, Kilkenny 056-65254.(previously 1386kHz) 100.0FM |
1413 | KILDARE COMMUNITY RADIO, Naas Co. Kildare |
1413 | BIG "M" COMMUNITY RADIO, Castleblaney Co. Monaghan.also FM |
1494 | RADIO MIDWAY, Mullingar Co. Westmeath |
1503 | COMMUNITY RADIO YOUGHAL (CRY) Youghal Co. Cork. Also 99.2FM (studio) |
1503 | WKLR (West corK Local Radio) Bandon Co. Cork. 95.5FM and others |
1512 | CRYSTAL CITY SOUND, Waterford. 97.9FM |
1566 | COAST 103, GALWAY. 103FM |
1575 | COMMUNITY RADIO FINGAL/PULSAR 98.8, Loughshinney |
1584 | VIKING 105, Wicklow. 105FM |
THANKS TO BARRY FROM DUBLIN FOR THIS CONTRIBUTION:
"Here's a quite accurate bandscan from the very end of 1988. I've
included one or two notes about the stations.
Stations marked * were either a commercial station; or a station that
were widely listened to (such as BLB) in Dublin. Some of the others
were hobby stations; others stations that were only really audible by
anoraks."
MHz | Name | Details |
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91.6 | Tallaght Community Radio | (Tallaght) **Never regained the momentum they had as Wonderland Radio** |
94.2 | Smile FM | (Ballyfermot...this station was a split from Radio Dublin) |
94.2 | DSCR | (see 97.8) |
94.8 | 3CR Community Radio | (Clondalkin) |
94.9 | Radio Nova (Satellite) | relay (from the former Southside 95 DunLaoghaire) |
95.5 | Heartbeat FM | (Dolphins Barn) ***"The Heartbeat of Dublin City" with non-stop lovesongs. Became huge with female listeners! |
95.8 | Capital/Nitesky | (City Centre) *VERY influential station at the time. They played album tracks and a lot of new music; presenters were studenty but professional |
96.3 | Zike FM | (Balinteer; VERY small hobby pirate) |
97.? | Phoenix FM | (Blanchardstown) ***Professional community station |
97.4 | Radio West ("West National Radio 3") | (Mullingar) ***A station that always tried to broadcast to Dublin, but never took off in the City |
97.8 | Dublin South Community Radio | (Dundrum. Since licenced, v. boring) |
97.8 | BLB (Bray) | ***Bray Local Broadcasting; great station at the time, its legal version as East Coast is a pale imitation |
98.0 | Boyneside Radio | (Drogheda) ***A station, like Radio West, which often had aspirations towards the Dublin market, but never really penetrated it |
98.5 | CLASS 98.5 | (City Centre) ****Dublin's easy listening station. Originally called K.L.A.S, they were huge with the old folk! |
98.8 | Pulsar 98/Community Radio Fingal | (Skerries) |
99.1 | Treble T-R | |
99.5 | Treble T-R | (Harolds Cross)****Dublin's country music station. Were hugely popular with older listeners |
99.9 | 'Super'Q102 | |
100.3 | Sunshine 101 | |
100.9 | Sunshine 101 | |
101.5 | Sunshine 101 | (Portmarnock) ***Ireland's first SUPERPIRATE. At this stage in 1988 they were still using the 'Hot Hit' format, despite Q102 trying to muscle in on the audience |
101.9 | 'Super'Q102 | |
102.5 | 'Super'Q102 | |
103.0 | 'Super'Q102 | (City Centre) *****SUPER PIRATE; grew out of DJ discontent with Radio Nova; by the end of 1988, had started running the controversial Bill Cunningham 'Hot Hit' format |
103.5 | Liberty 104 | ****originally a community station for the area, but lost its way, particularly in 1988, when station management just grew bored |
104.0 | Liberty 104 | (the Liberties area) |
104.4 | Hope 104 | (City Centre) ****Soft A/C station, with 'inspirational messages! |
104.8 | Radio Dublin | |
105.2 | Radio Dublin | (Inchicore) ***** Need we say more about Radio Dublin? |
105.5 | North Dublin Community Radio (NDCR) | (Phibsboro) See Note 1 below |
105.6 | Kiss 106 relay | (was originally another pirate called Zee 105.6) |
105.9 | Turbo FM | (Donnybrook) |
106.1 | Signal 106 | (Rathfarnham) |
106.5 | Kiss 106 | (Stillorgan; the first station I ever jocked for) |
106.9 | Q107 | (Ballyfermot; station opened up after a split with Smile FM) |
Note 1: Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000, received from Kiss FM Cork's DJ Shay/DJ KAOS re. NDCR 105.5: "On your page pirates of the past you list NDCR as being in Phibsboro it was actually based 1st over the garage at Ulster Bank in Coolock and then moved to over Cahill Motors at Northside S.C. as Cahill Motors sponsored the Drivetime"
FM stations in Cork City and nearby
88.0 | KLFJ | (KLFJ="Keep Looking For Jesus") - low power UCB type station with Christian music, used a Cork PO Box address, opened early 1988. Uncertain where the studio was but phonebook gave an address in Blarney |
95.0 | Centre Radio | (moved from 101.0FM during 1988,was originally Leeside Radio(the 2nd)) on 101.5. Broadcast from Shandon Street. |
96.0 | Sunshine Radio | This was a station which made considerable use of repeating pre-recorded programmes! It broadcast from the former (now demolished) Cameo cinema near Collins Barracks. Had also operated for a time from a location in the Blackpool area, but with much reduced coverage. |
97.7 | ERI | also 1305kHz MW. Studio at 'Fort 97' Whites Cross. Transmitters were at Hollyhill since 1986. |
98.5 | South Coast Radio | (Not the original!- formerly WBEN until late 1987), studio was at The Pyramid Snooker Club, Vicars Rd.,Togher - during latter part of 1988. Transmitter near Spur Hill |
100.0 | WKLR relay | (A relay of WKLR from Bandon (95.5) serving the city area from a site near Airport) |
104 | Phoenix Radio | (very small station with primitive equipment) no further details |
FM stations in Cork County:
95, 98 | North Cork Community Radio (NCCR) | also 1386khz MW |
95.5 | WKLR | main transmitter at Cashelmore near Bandon (+other relays, frequencies 99,100.0 etc.) also 1503kHz MW in Bandon area. |
99.2 | Community Radio Youghal (CRY) | 99.2 from the studio ( 2 South Main St, Youghal). Very limited FM coverage unlike its 1503kHz (200 metres) MW signal. |
104 | Ballincollig Community Radio | (opened 1988 serving the large Cork suburb of Ballincollig), see Note 2 below. This station had initially appeared on '106' before moving down to '104'. |
? | Radio Mallow | Spa Square, Mallow (Broadcast during the final months of 1988 and was a breakaway faction from NCCR ) |
Thanks to our Mayo correspondent Mike of Castlebar for the following additions: (received 1/2001): "738AM was the Independent Radio Mayo 1kW rig (formerly used by Radio Leinster) IRM also used 95.7 FM, coverage on AM was Excellent but was poor on FM Midwest in addition to 1233 and 1332 used various FM frequencies from memory 97.0 97.95 and 106.0 were among them TCR 95 (Twin County Radio 94.1/95.3 and 103FM) Based in Ballina this short lived (Late 1988) station was supposed to cover Mayo and Sligo with a 1.2 Kilowatt signal (The most powerful FM pirate ever to broadcast in Mayo). Unfortunately the station was constantly dogged by technical difficulties which meant that full power was rarely achieved. Indeed it was sometimes as low as 20 watts. West National Radio 3 had a relay in Galway on 711 kHz 1512 was Roscommon Radio (actually based in Mohill Co Leitrim) using the former Radio Rainbow International (Drogheda SW station). 1260 ???? (from memory) was Galway District Radio. Somewhere I have a (badly photocopied) Anoraks Ireland nationwide Bandscan from April 1988. If I come across it I'll send it on."
(Mostly from the 1988 World Radio TV Handbook : very incomplete and DOES NOT include stations on both MW and FM. Some of thse stations may have closed before 1988 See MW list (at top) for those)
CENTRE RADIO, c/o Larry Keogh's, Prosperous, Co. Kildare CITY CENTRE RADIO (CCR) 29 Roches St. Limerick 97.0/101.0FM HORIZON RADIO Castlebridge Co. Wexford DUNGARVAN COMMUNITY RADIO, 64 O'Connell St., Dungarvan Co. Waterford. 98.9FM BIG "K" RADIO, c/o Henneverry's sports shop, Ash St. Tralee Co. Kerry 104.0FM KERRY REGIONAL RADIO SERVICES, Market House, Rock St. Tralee Co. Kerry KINGDOM 102, County Kerry RADIO VERA, Limerick WRKY RADIO ("Wonderful Radio KerrY" or "RocKY 103") 40 High St. Killarney Co. Kerry 103.5FM (unsure when the above closed, probably was before 1988) SOUTH WEST RADIO. Killarney Co. Kerry WCR (WEST COAST RADIO?) Co. Kerry/Co. Limerick border area. ATHLONE LOCAL RADIO, Burgess Chambers, Church St., Athlone Co. Westmeath. AMS, Kilkenny City ORMONDE RADIO, Nenagh Co. Tipperary (???) and many others...(The AM listings are fairly complete however)Cork Radio stations - old newspaper cuttings